Question

Outdoor Luggage, Inc., makes high-end hard-sided luggage for sports equipment. Data concerning three of the company’s most popular models appear below.

	Ski Guard			Golf Guard			Fishing Guard
Selling price per unit	$	250		$	320		$	235
Variable cost per unit	$	110		$	200		$	135
Plastic injection molding machine processing time required to produce one unit	13 minutes			11 minutes			5 minutes
Pounds of plastic pellets per unit	14 pounds			7 pounds			6 pounds

Required:

1. If we assume that the total time available on the plastic injection molding machine is the constraint in the production process, how much contribution margin per minute of the constrained resource is earned by each product?

2. Which product offers the most profitable use of the plastic injection molding machine?

3. If we assume that a severe shortage of plastic pellets has required the company to cut back its production so much that its new constraint has become the total available pounds of plastic pellets, how much contribution margin per pound of the constrained resource is earned by each product?

4. Which product offers the most profitable use of the plastic pellets?

5. Which product has the largest contribution margin per unit?

If we assume that the total time available on the plastic injection molding machine is the constraint in the production process, how much contribution margin per minute of the constrained resource is earned by each product? (Round your final answers to 2 decimal places.)

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	Ski Guard		Golf Guard		Fishing Guard
Contribution margin per minute of the constrained resource		per minute		per minute		per minute

If we assume that a severe shortage of plastic pellets has required the company to cut back its production so much that its new constraint has become the total available pounds of plastic pellets, how much contribution margin per pound of the constrained resource is earned by each product? (Round your final answers to 2 decimal places.)

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	Ski Guard		Golf Guard		Fishing Guard
Contribution margin per pound of the constrained resource		per pound		per pound		per pound

Answer 1

Req 1:
			Ski Guard	Golf Guard	Fishing
					Guard
Selling price per unit			250	320	235
Less: Variable cost per unit			110	200	135
Contribution margin per unit			140	120	100
Divide: Processing time in minutes			13	11	5
Contribution mrgin per minute			10.77	10.91	20
Req 2: Fishing Guard is most profitable
Req 3:
			Ski Guard	Golf Guard	Fishing
					Guard
Selling price per unit			250	320	235
Less: Variable cost per unit			110	200	135
Contribution margin per unit			140	120	100
Divide: Pound of Plastic pellets			14	7	6
Contribution margin per pound			10	17.14	16.67
Req 4: Golf Guard Product is most profitable
Req 5:
Ski Guard provides the largest contribution margin per unit